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Visualization for Healthcare: Combatting Curing Cancer and Controlling Costs Terry S. Yoo VRC Government Liaison Head, 3D Informatics Program Office of High Performance Computing and Communications Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health Department of Health and Human Services iHealthBeat.org Leavitt Calls for Development of Health IT Standards May 03, 2005 HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on Monday said the federal government and the health care industry must make a "forced march commitment" to develop national standards for health care IT systems, CQ HealthBeat reports. At an annual American Hospital Association meeting, Leavitt said that "if we do not act and do not act soon," the health care system will lose hundreds of millions of dollars because of incompatible health care IT systems. May 3, 2005 2 iHealthBeat.org Health IT Fund Part of 2006 Budget May 03, 2005 Congress last week passed a fiscal year 2006 $2.56 trillion budget resolution, which includes a reserve fund for health care information technology, Healthcare IT News reports. The reserve fund allows for a five-year period to demonstrate how much money health care IT and pay-forperformance projects save, provided that the legislation does not raise the deficit for fiscal years 2006 to 2010, Healthcare IT News reports. May 3, 2005 3 Fighting Disease with Visualization prevent life-style advice screening detect Imaging cure surgery gene tissue epidemiology human country Dear Terry, Following up on our discussion last night, I started to think further on it. Above a little scheme, with horizontally a space scale, and vertically a time scale. Each position in the box represents some aspect of fighting cancer. I do not know anything about cancer, but even I could fill in some boxes. Such a scheme could be used as a frame in for a story on Fighting Cancer with Visualization. Three versions: What is done by researchers and physicians, how has visualization contributed (success-stories), and how could advancements in visualization help further. One nice aspect that almost any visualization method could fit in. Best regards, Jack van Wijk, May 3rd 2005 Fighting Cancer Disease Prevention (screening, personal management) Detection Treatment (medical, chemical) • InfoVis for Bioinformatics, genomics. • Drug discovery. • Personalized treatment plan. Intervention (surgery, radiation) May 3, 2005 TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH 5 Fighting Cancer Image analysis - early detection • angiogenesis Assessment • Need for new biomarkers • Oncologists disdain for imaging (computers). • Physiological imaging, registration, segmentation, measurement, validation • Reduce costs and time for bringing new drugs to market. Cardiac as a success story. May 3, 2005 TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH 6 Fighting Cancer Basic principles, factors affecting cancer. • Genetics. • Cell division. • Identify the T2, T4, T8 and T22 by monoclonal antibodies? Focus? • Causes: virus? Human Pampalona Virus • Immunity where is the breakdown, deficiency? May 3, 2005 TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH 7 Controlling Healthcare Costs Improving quality of life • Complex interventions through small incisions. • Image guidance? Visualization guidance? • Empowering patients. Gauging risk factors - epidemiology • Turning knowledge into action. • Not “No Child Left Behind.” May 3, 2005 TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH 8 Why is YOO here? Good question. Opportunity. • See needs at NIH. • See needs in Vis. Requires change: • Accept NIH commitment. • Prepare to engage the domain of healthcare. May 3, 2005 TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH 9